Party Politics and Policy Issues in Okinawa, Japan
An Analysis of 2017 General Election, 2018 Gubernatorial Election, and 2019 Okinawan Referendum
2019 Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 44-59
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2019 Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 44-59
This paper analyses 2017 general election Okinawa district, 2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election, and 2019 Okinawan referendum. In 2017 general election, while candidates from different parties or groups of ALL OKINAWA coalition were fielded in each district, electoral cooperation between LDP and Komeito worked better than 2014, and partial cooperation between LDP and JRP brought a victory to LDP in district 4. In 2018 gubernatorial election, although conservative groups in All OKINAWA had become smaller, and cooperation between LDP, Kemeito, and JRP had established newly, Tamaki Denny, successor of Onaga Takeshi, won. In 2019 referendum on the landfill at Henoko for construction of alternative for Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, ‘not agree’ got the most votes including non-partisan votes. And the areas with much votes for LDP candidate in 2018 gubernatorial election got more abstentions and votes for ‘neither’. These results imply that Okinawan voters’attitudes has been continuing since 2014.
